Joanne Kurian
Principal Recruiter
Summary
Deliverable focused Recruiter with 7 years tenure in 360 recruiting in Multinational Executive Search environment. Clients include major fortune 500 companies working on positions from junior level to senior management level averaging one placement a month. Experience includes placing candidates across support, commercial, engineering, technology roles predominately in the Property, Construction, Healthcare, Renewable Energy, FMCG, Banking & Finance and Insurance, Aviation industries. Holds a Certificate of Employment for Intermediaries and bachelor's degree.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal Recruitment Consultant
Quess Selection & Services
09.2023 - Current
- Spearheaded full-cycle recruitment for executive, leadership, and niche roles across the SEA region, overseeing both contract and permanent placements.
- Managed strategic accounts within the banking and government sectors, ensuring high-quality talent delivery and stakeholder satisfaction.
- Serve as a strategic partner to senior leadership, providing guidance on workforce planning, market insights, and hiring best practices.
- Develop and execute targeted sourcing strategies to attract top-tier, passive talent.
- Build and maintain strong talent pipelines through proactive engagement and networking.
- Drive improvements in recruiting processes, tools, and metrics to optimize efficiency and effectiveness.
- Act as a mentor and resource for junior recruiters, sharing best practices and contributing to team development.
- Utilized ATS to streamline the recruitment process and manage candidate pipelines.
- 2023 - Received Sprint Award
- 2024 - Received best in Business and Top Biller Award
- 2025 - Received Performance Excellence Award
- Consistently delivered high-value placements resulting in an annual gross profit of over SGD 300,000, driving notable financial performance.
- Achieved a strong 90% conversion rate from interview to hire, reflecting high-quality candidate matching.
Senior Recruiter, Software Engineering
Ethos BeathChapman
04.2022 - 09.2023
- Started of in a role involved in volume project roles and lower-level roles after 4 months moved to build the Software Engineering desk involved in mid management to senior level roles.
- Pitching retainers, contingent, contract business and managing end - end process to get on a clients PSL.
- Account management for existing clients, connecting with hiring manager and manage end to end recruitment process.
- Business Development to new accounts by floating CVs on LinkedIn in mail, calls, marketing brochure, call and meeting.
- Sourcing for talent through using Boolean search on LinkedIn, job boards, Github.
- Working together with the Employee Communication Team to lead corporate-wide personal branding initiatives that are best suited for the business in terms of maximising Employee Value Proposition and focusing recruitment efforts on certain roles.
- Manage events for clients bringing leaders to speak about current technology market hiring situation and about existing talent market.
- Manage processors through Application Tracking System and databases.
- Hit SDG 220,000 ever since I started in the Software engineering space.
- Rebuild relationship with passed clients of EBC and placed with them.
- Involved in coming up with a salary guide for the Technology team, my contribution was for the Software Engineering space.
- Part of EBC Life (A team involved in planning EBC's events and CSR activities)
Specialist Recruiter (APAC)
Spencer Ogden
01.2021 - 04.2022
- Oversee the Technology desk across the Energy industry.
- Manager 4 Key Accounts with volume hiring across permanent and contract business.
- Formulate a client and candidate development plan, together with hiring manager, to support the achievement successful placement of talent.
- Initiate a range of sourcing activities, such as publishing vacancies, networking and conducting referrals, to ensure a regular supply of candidates that meet client's current and future demands.
- Schedule weekly update meetings to go through long list and shortlist with client and give brief of candidate's experience, skills and career aspirations.
- Manage end to end process, up to salary negotiation and passing of probation.
- Come up with tender and scope of work for contract roles to hiring manager and involvement in bidding session with procurement team.
- Manage to hit SGD 225,000 for 2 back-to-back quarters.
- Consultant of the month.
- Rebuild relationship with Key Accounts and got on their PSL.
- Part of the CSR team represent Malaysia..
Recruitment Consultant
Randstad
09.2019 - 11.2020
- Oversee the Life Science, Medical Device and Pharmaceutical desk focused in technical and support functions.
- Single handedly grew the cold desk from scratch.
- Business development using floats through LinkedIn InMail, call floats, email as well as marketing brochure.
- Manage end to end process of recruitment from Terms of Business negotiation to candidate offer negotiation.
- Screening of CVS, face to face interview, long list shortlist presentation, video interview preparation, after interview feedback and offer negotiation.
- Manage to close sales of about RM 186,000
- Manage to sign terms with over 18 clients
- Manage to build database from scratch to over 580 useful contacts & clients.
- Manage to build database from scratch to over 1,700 useful candidates.
- Part of the CSR team, manage to have a successful fund raiser.
Recruitment Consultant, SEA region
Barrington James
03.2018 - 07.2019
- Specialize in recruiting for talents in Singapore, Philippines and Thailand across the Pharmaceutical & Life Science industry.
- Proactively identify and approach active and passive candidates via both traditional and digital channels, e.g., active sourcing from various career job portals, headhunting, social media, cold calling.
- Build and maintain candidate pools and talent pipelines by developing sourcing strategies and constructing target lists.
- Conduct detailed screening and interviews to shortlist qualified candidates based on the hiring manager's requirements.
- Build good relationships and maintain effective communication with hiring manager's/recruitment partners to understand job requirements and expectations in order to ensure an effective hiring process.
- Adherence to Service Level Agreement (SLA) targets.
- Manage to place a candidate in the first month of joining.
- Hit over SGD 115,000 worth of sales by candidate placement over 7 months.
Talent Acquisition Consultant
In2talenz Consulting Sdn Bhd
09.2016 - 02.2018
- Specializing in candidate management for support & technical roles for the property, construction and retail industry.
- Partner with customers to get a clear view of their strategic and financial objectives and hiring needs.
- Devise and carry out a targeted search by using Boolean search to find candidates on job boards and LinkedIn.
- Research into client's company, competitors and marketplace.
- Map role criteria, define position description and pool of candidates.
Education
Bachelor of Applied Management -
01.2016
Diploma in Applied Management - undefined
01.2012
Skills
Social media recruiting
Candidate sourcing
Applicant interviewing
Client management
Contract negotiation
Client relations
Performance tracking
Industry research
Recruitment process management
New market research
Timeline
Principal Recruitment Consultant - Quess Selection & Services
09.2023 - Current
Senior Recruiter, Software Engineering - Ethos BeathChapman
04.2022 - 09.2023
Specialist Recruiter (APAC) - Spencer Ogden
01.2021 - 04.2022
Recruitment Consultant - Randstad
09.2019 - 11.2020
Recruitment Consultant, SEA region - Barrington James
03.2018 - 07.2019
Talent Acquisition Consultant - In2talenz Consulting Sdn Bhd
09.2016 - 02.2018
UCSI University - Diploma in Applied Management,
Federation University Australia - Bachelor of Applied Management,
Candidate
Joanne Kurian, P2M, Certificate of Employment Intermediaries (BASIC), NON - FDW, Deliverable focused Recruiter with 6 years tenure in 360 recruiting in Multinational Executive Search environment. Clients include major fortune 500 companies working on positions from junior level to senior management level averaging one placement a month. Experience includes placing candidates across support, commercial, engineering, technology roles predominately in the Property, Construction, Healthcare, Renewable Energy, FMCG, Banking & Finance and Insurance, Aviation industries. Holds a Certificate of Employment for Intermediaries and bachelor's degree.
Personal Information
Availability: 2 Months
Pass : Singapore PR